SCIENCE AT THE EDGE SEMINAR

QB/GEDD

Friday, November 30 at 11:30am

Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 11:15

 

 

 

Gerry Wright

Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

MG DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research

 McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

 

 

 

 

Resisting Resistance.  Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance

with Small Molecules

 

 

Resistance to antibiotics is among the greatest challenges to modern health care. Resistance to all classes of antibiotics has emerged while new antibiotic drug discovery has lagged resulting in a growing crisis.  To address this challenge, new approaches to antibiotic drug discovery and new therapeutic strategies need to be considered.  Once such approach is the combination of bioactive compounds with antibiotics to overcome resistance, such antibiotic adjuvants have the capacity to extend the life and spectrum of known drugs.  Our efforts to block resistance directly and indirectly using small molecule antibiotic adjuvants will be presented.

 

Helen Geiger, Administrative Assistant

Quantitative Biology Graduate Program and

Gene Expression in Development and Disease

Biochemistry

603 Wilson Road, Room 212

East Lansing, MI   48824

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Phone:  517-432-9895

QB Website: http://www.qbi.msu.edu/

GEDD Website: http://www.gedd.msu.edu/